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Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Jesus Feeds the 5000

Children’s Chapel

August 6, 2017

·Welcome: Good Morning
girls and boys! I am so happy to see you all this morning! Do we have any new
friends with us? (Welcome new friends.)

·Church Practice:

·We are now in the liturgical season
of Ordinary Time. The cloth on our Children’s Chapel
altar is green today which is the color we use during Ordinary Time.Who would like to move the arrow on our
liturgical calendar? (Allow one child to come up to the calendar to move the
arrow forward one week.) The arrow is now pointing to the ninth green
square.You will also notice that in big
church the altar frontal, church dressings, and clergy stoles are green. (Light
altar candles.)We light these
candles to remind us that Christ is the light of the world. We remember that
God is always with us, that Jesus lives in our hearts and that we are inspired
by the power of the Holy Spirit. Before we begin our Bible lesson today, let us
pray.

·Children’s
Collect:Let us pray, Heavenly
Father, we are here to worship and praise you. Open our hearts and minds so
that we may hear your words spoken to us through the Bible story today. Give us
strength that we may serve you through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives, and reigns
with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen

·Introduction:We have learned in Children’s Chapel
together that God loves us so much that he sent Jesus to share the treasure of
God’s love with everyone. We have also learned that Jesus invites us everyday
to share the treasure of God’s love through trusting in him and caring for and
loving others as well as taking care of God’s creation. We know that God is
always with us and that no matter how small we are, God’s love takes care of
everyone and everything. God is amazing and awesome! Although we are made in
God’s image, we are human and sometimes we think that there just isn’t enough
love or food or houses or whatever to go around. But God’s love is overflowing.
Let’s listen to the Bible story today to hear an example of God’s overflowing
love through Jesus.

·Bible
Reference:(For Teachers) Matthew 14

·Read
aloud from the The Jesus Storybook Bible pp 243-249.

(Jesus
Feeds the Five Thousand)

·Response:When Jesus was approached by huge crowds who came to see him,
he saw all of their needs and had great love for all of them. One of their
needs was that the people were hungry. Jesus asked his disciples to feed the
crowd, but they were not sure that they had enough to feed such a large number
of people. One small boy came and gave Jesus his small offering of fish and
bread to help feed the crowd. Jesus told the disciples to take the small
offering and start sharing it with the people. The disciples did what Jesus
said and to their amazement that small amount of food fed everyone and there
was food left over. It was a miracle. As humans, we may think that there is not
enough to go around, but in God’s kingdom, the treasure of his love is
overflowing. God does not need us to make the treasure be enough, all we have
to do is trust in him and God does the work for us.

·Closing Prayer:Heavenly Father, Thank you for the
gift of our lives. Thank you for loving each of us. Help us to remember that
you are always with us as we trust in you. Shine your light of love through us
so that we may be strengthened to do your work in the world. In your holy name,